Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Wild Wings Café – Knoxville Tennessee

This restaurant is not to be confused
with Buffalo Wild Wings. It took us
about 3 years after we moved to East Tennessee to stumble on this place as its
tucked away on the back side at the far west end of Knoxville’s Turkey Creek
Shopping area.

The setting is not what one would expect
behind a huge shopping complex and near I-40!
The structure and setting reminds me of a Bahama Breeze Restaurant. I ‘borrowed’
this photo from the Internet as our most recent visit to Wild Wings Café was
this winter…

This photo was also ‘borrowed’… I like it
because it shows the inside of this very large restaurant and entertainment
venue at a very busy time…large crowds and lots going on!

Our photo shows a portion of the inside
of the restaurant looking from our table over toward the big bar area. Wild Wings Café is not just a restaurant and
it’s not just an entertainment venue…it’s also a huge sports bar. Look at all the flat screen Televisions!

The food at Wild Wings Café is all about
comfort and quality sports bar cuisine. We both ordered the Legendary House
Salad topped with bacon and cheese, served with balsamic vinegar dressing and a
piece of cheesy Texas toast. ($1.99) It was very nice…

On a previous visit, we both ordered the
Big Buffalo Chicken Salad. ($8.99) For this salad you choose between fried or
grilled chicken and then you specify the marinade for the chicken. The chicken is then served on cold crisp
greens with cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, bacon and it’s served with homemade
blue cheese dressing. It was an excellent
and very satisfying dinner salad!

I ordered a bowl of the soup of the day… ($3.99)
I can’t remember what it was…and I can’t find my receipt…but I think it was
broccoli cheese soup. It’s one of my
favorites!

As might be expected in a sports bar, there
are no less than 30 appetizers on the menu at Wild Wings Café. On our next visit I plan to try the Hot Shots
($6.49), spicy sausage and cheese fritters with honey mustard for dipping, and
the Drunken Shrimp ($7.99), shrimp plunged into beer marinade and broiled then
served with bread for sopping up the sauce.

Laurie decided to try one of Wild Wings Café’s
7” Flatbread Pizzas. This is the
Pepperoni with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese. ($4.99) While it wasn’t
the best pizza ever, it was very nice and it hit the spot. In addition to 3 other Flatbread Pizzas,
Wild Wings Café offers Wild Wraps, Sandwiches, Burgers and Sliders…along with 8
different extras or sides…

As per the company website, Wild Wing
Cafe was born at the beach. Specifically
the first restaurant opened on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island. “…vacationing families and laid-back locals
flocked to the town’s first-ever restaurant to serve gourmet chicken wings and
buckets of ice cold beer.” The first
Wild Wing Cafe opened in the late 1990s with only eight sauces and rubs as
compared to the plethora of choices offered today.

Did I forget the wings? Well…what can I say! We were hungry and we’d skipped lunch. So since we were dining on a day when Wild
Wings Café was offering all the wings you could eat for a fixed price, we
placed an order for our first batch of 10 wings…and then our second batch of
10! We chose several sauces for our
wings…and there are no less than 33 options! We tried 4 different sauces…Atomic Meltdown,
Red Dragon, Flaming Parmesan and The Slayer.
The wings were very good indeed!

With 33 wing sauces and rubs, it seems
fitting that the company now has 33 locations in Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Tennessee. Our Knoxville location is at 11335 Campbell
Lakes Drive. Phone: 865-777-9464. Website: http://www.wildwingcafe.com/locations/knoxville-tn.
We’ll be joining a group at Wild Wings Café for dinner and some bluegrass music
in late April…but we will be back for the wings and appetizers before then!

I'll have to keep an eye out for it in Florida. Very reasonably priced food & generous servings, especially that first salad for $1.99. I would have been surprised with the setting too. Very nice David.Sam

Dear Dave, Sounds like a nice place with a very nice setting. The salad looks good and the soup seems nice. I like broccoli cheddar too.The pizza looks nice though the wings sound really good and reasonable at all you can eat!Glad you had a nice time.Blessings, Catherine